Word: coppered
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...laboriously reburying it at Fort Knox. The War Production Board last week decreed that gold mines must stop breaking out new ore this week, stop all operations within 60 days. The War Manpower Commission simultaneously moved to force gold miners to take jobs in other non-ferrous mines-notably copper-which are desperately short of manpower (TIME...
...hire any gold miner unless he was referred to them by the U.S. Employment Service. McNutt promised that the men would be given a choice between the other mining jobs available, would be given every help, including transportation if necessary. If 4,000 gold miners go into copper mining, there should be almost 16,000 tons more copper produced each month...
...last week Berkeley Bunker came up with some news that really put B.M. into the big time. He said he had heard "reliably" that huge Anaconda Copper Co. was buying B.M. "lock, stock and barrel" for $75,000,000, that its former owners were getting $1,000,000 from Defense Plants Corp. on the deal, although the Government's bill for building the plant would now run over $100,000,000 rather than $70,000,000. Even so, said Senator Bunker darkly, "the Government can consider itself lucky to get out of this thing...
...Baranov made money for his company from the start. Hundreds of canoes, manned by Aleutian islanders, scoured the shores for sea otter, seals and foxes. At the cost of hundreds of lives, the precious skins found their way to Siberia, were traded to eager Chinese for copper goods, tea, cloth...
Frustrated freight is the Washington nickname for goods that were manufactured, paid for, consigned and ready for shipment to all kinds of "friendly" governments and nationals-but never left the U.S. It consists of shells, motors, machines, pipe, steel bars, copper wire etc. ordered by the whole roster of European nations now Axis-occupied, not to mention China and all the Good Neighbor Republics. The goods got to some port of embarkation and frustration began-usually no ships...